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Editorial: Coping With Environmental Fluctuations: Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 Sylvain Giroud +3 more
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Theme and Variations: Heterothermy in Mammals [PDF]
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2014 This collection of articles is focused on the evolutionary dynamics of heterothermy in mammals, specifically torpor and hibernation. Topics cover a wide range from evolutionary genetics, physiology, ecology, and applications to human health.
Sandra L, Martin, Anne D, Yoder
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Avian Heterothermy: A Review of Patterns and Processes
Integrative And Comparative Biology, 2023 Synopsis Many birds reduce rest-phase energy demands through heterothermy, physiological responses involving facultative, reversible reductions in metabolic rate and body temperature (Tb). Here, we review the phylogenetic distribution and ecological contexts of avian heterothermy.
Andrew E McKechnie +2 more
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Adaptive evolution of Leptin in heterothermic bats. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Heterothermy (hibernation and daily torpor) is a key strategy that animals use to survive in harsh conditions and is widely employed by bats, which are found in diverse habitats and climates.
Lihong Yuan +9 more
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Heterothermy in growing king penguins [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2011 A drop in body temperature allows significant energy savings in endotherms, but facultative heterothermy is usually restricted to small animals. Here we report that king penguin chicks (Aptenodytes patagonicus), which are able to fast for up to 5 months in winter, undergo marked seasonal heterothermy during this period of general food scarcity and slow-
Eichhorn, Götz +6 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Mammalian heterotherms, species that employ short or long periods of torpor, are found in many different climatic regions. Although the underlying physiological mechanisms of heterothermy in species from lower latitudes (i.e., the tropics and southern ...
Julia Nowack +4 more
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Heart rate reveals torpor at high body temperatures in lowland tropical free-tailed bats [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Reduction in metabolic rate and body temperature is a common strategy for small endotherms to save energy. The daily reduction in metabolic rate and heterothermy, or torpor, is particularly pronounced in regions with a large variation in daily ambient ...
M. Teague O'Mara +5 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 Organisms use circadian rhythms to anticipate and exploit daily environmental oscillations. While circadian rhythms are of clear importance for inhabitants of tropic and temperate latitudes, its role for permanent residents of the polar regions is less ...
Daniel Appenroth +5 more
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Heterothermy in Afrotropical Mammals and Birds: A Review [PDF]
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2011 (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the number of Afrotropical endotherms known to avoid mismatches between energy supply and demand by using daily torpor and/or hibernation. Among mammals, heterothermy has been reported in 40 species in six orders, namely Macroscelidea, Afrosoricida, Rodentia ...
McKechnie, Andrew E. +1 more
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Body Temperature Frequency Distributions: A Tool for Assessing Thermal Performance in Endotherms?
Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 There is increasing recognition that rather than being fully homeothermic, most endotherms display some degree of flexibility in body temperature. However, the degree to which this occurs varies widely from the relatively strict homeothermy in species ...
D.L. Levesque, J. Nowack, J.G. Boyles
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